To me, the highest aspiration of art is to stimulate the minds and emotions of your viewer. To actually have your viewer walk away not only smarter, but with a new perspective, just from viewing your art. If an artist can cause the viewer to stop and think about the imagery in front of them, it can stimulate the growth of new neural networks, enabling an entirely new view or way of thinking about almost any subject. This is accomplished by creating imagery that first stops the viewer to give attention and then offers deeper and deeper aspects of the subject.

ABOUT

I started my art career by encountering a Dali book and was so moved taught myself to paint and became his protege. I worked with Dali on many varied projects for 6 years. When it ended, I did not know what I wanted to paint for myself, so I stopped. The next 35 years of my life were devoted to technology, where I worked myself up from a technician to a principal engineer with no college. During that time, I amassed nearly 40 patents and retired in 2019. I had always thought that upon retiring, I would return to art and some of the projects I started with Dali, but in 2011, two formative events happened. First, I discovered the invention of the three-dimensional fractal online, and second, I saw a 3D poster of Spider-Man at a movie marquee in Times Square. The Mandelbulb Fractal allowed me to recreate almost any geometry mathematically, something Dali would have loved, and the lenticular technology was something I could use to fulfill Dali's lifelong dream. Creating the third dimension on a flat surface in full color with no viewing aids.

 

Even the most worldly art connoisseurs are acknowledging that, when it comes to the work of St. Petersburg artist Louis Markoya, they have simply never seen anything quite like this anywhere.​

What “this” is spans a remarkably innovative approach to art, allowing it to leverage optical technology and mathematical principles – plus a dash of classicism – in order to create a whole new way of thinking and perceiving subjects not normally covered in artworks.

Markoya, who worked and collaborated for years with the celebrated Spanish Surrealist painter Salvador Dali, is committed to melding classical painting techniques and subject matter with the latest fractal and lenticular technology. ​

While distinctly his own, the Dali influence can clearly be seen in the work as the artist feels he is creating both continuity and an evolution to the work he did with Dali.

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